Catalogue description Folio 10: Benjamin Meanly, aged 20, Convict; disease or hurt, catarrh, much pain of...

Folio 10: Benjamin Meanly, aged 20, Convict; disease or hurt, catarrh, much pain of head, thirst, nausea, foul tongue, belly bound. Taken ill, 5 October 1819. Treatment continues to folio 13. Discharged 9 October 1819.

Folio 10: William Fowler, aged 28, Convict; disease or hurt, catarrh, violent headache, thirst, nausea, tongue foul. Taken ill, 5 October 1819. Treatment continues to folio 14. Discharged 10 October 1819.

Folio 10: Mathew Gillespie, Convict, tooth extracted.

Folio 10: Peter Rawlings, aged 20, Convict; disease or hurt, chynanche [cynanche] tonsillaris. Taken ill, 5 October 1819. Treatment continues to folio 15. Discharged 15 October 1819. Left tonsil punctured with lancet, 6 October 1819, right tonsil, 12 October 1819.

Folio 10: William Wilson, aged 20, Convict; disease or hurt, dysuria. Taken ill, 5 October 1819. Treatment continues to folio 12. Discharged 6 October 1819.

Folio 10: George Slater, aged 29, Convict; disease or hurt, catarrh, slight headache and thirst. Taken ill, 5 October 1819. Treatment continues to folio 13. Discharged 8 October 1819.

Folio 11: Note dated 5 October 1819 about the prisoners refusing to accept their fresh beef. The surgeon recommends to the men in charge of the messes that they should take the beef before it spoils. Convict John Nixon is beaten for suggesting they should accept the beef. An investigation to find the perpetrators of the beating finds no proof against anyone except Thomas Warren, who is not punished because he had previously complained of his accusers, James Little, Thomas Hewland and John Hurley, for not cleaning below decks.

Folio 11: John Ballantyne, [aged 19, Convict]; disease or hurt, opthalmia. Taken ill, 6 October 1819. Treatment continues to folio 15. Discharged 13 October 1819.

Folio 12: Joseph Bright, aged 20, Convict; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Taken ill, 6 October 1819. Treatment continues to folio 13. Discharged 8 October 1819.

Folio 12: Joseph Shipley, aged 28 [previously given as 38], Convict; disease or hurt, diarrhoea. Taken ill, 6 October 1819. Treatment continues to folio 13. Discharged 8 October 1819.

Folio 12: John Warner, aged 24, Convict; disease or hurt, catarrh, headache, thirst, nausea and giddiness, feels the motion of the ship very much. Taken ill, 6 October 1819. Treatment continues to folio 15. Discharged 13 October 1819.

Folio 12: Hugh McGuire, aged 21, Convict; disease or hurt, concussion and fractured rib, from a quarter of beef falling on his head and shoulders. Taken ill, 6 October 1819. Treatment continues to folio 19. Discharged 23 October 1819.

Folio 12: Wind contrary and blowing hard, three prisoners, John Evans, Daniel O'Brien and Isaiah Harris, refused to fill cisterns because of sea sickness, one of the 'buzzels' removed from John Fletcher.

Folio 13: Robert Good, aged 24, Convict; disease or hurt, pain in his right side on breathing in, from a fall. Taken ill, 7 October 1819. Discharged 8 October 1819.

Folio 13: James Thomas, aged 28, Convict; disease or hurt, catarrh, pain of head, thirst and nausea, soreness all over. Taken ill, 7 October 1819. Treatment continues to folio 14. Discharged 9 October 1819.

Folio 13: Note that Edward Gibbs had complained that George Lawford had refused to fill the cistern and 1st Officer Mr Hale witnessed it. With the approval of Captain Hunt and Captain Fraser, the surgeon ordered George Lawford to be given a dozen lashes and put in double irons. Captain Hunt reminded to procure knives and forks.

Folio 14: Note that two men of each mess shall be allowed on deck at a time and Mrs Fraser left the ship to return home, 9 October. Ship taking on water and provisions, 10 October. Sailed from Spithead and anchored at Isle of Wight, 11 October 1819. Sailed, 12 October 1819.

Folio 14: John Sporton, aged 24, Soldier; disease or hurt, catarrh, violent headache and thirst, with cough and pain of breast. Taken ill, 12 October 1819, at sea. Treatment continues to folio 17. Discharged to duty, 18 October 1819.

Folio 14: Joseph Harborne, aged 19, Soldier; disease or hurt, catarrh, same symptoms as John Sporton. Taken ill, 12 October 1819, at sea. Treatment continues to folio 16. Discharged to duty, 16 October 1819.

Folio 15: John Tracey, aged 19, Convict; disease or hurt, catarrh, sickness and loss of appetite. Taken ill, 13 October 1819. Treatment continues to folio 18. Discharged 21 October 1819.

Folio 15: Note that irons removed completely from John Fletcher, 14 October. Captain Hunt requested not to open any casks of provisions for either the guard or the prisoners without informing the surgeon. 15 October 1819, out of sight of land.

Folio 15: Mathew Gillespie, aged 17, Convict; disease or hurt, chynanche [cynanche]. Taken ill, 15 October 1819. Treatment continues to folio 19. Discharged 23 October 1819.

Folio 15: Isaiah Harris, aged 17, Convict; disease or hurt, slight pressing and pain of his bowels. Taken ill, 15 October 1819. Treatment continues to folio 17. Discharged 18 October 1819.

Folio 16: Thomas Blake, aged 26, Convict; disease or hurt, chynanche [cynanche]. Taken ill, 16 October 1819. Treatment continues to folio 24. Discharged 7 November 1819.

Folio 16: Robert Bennet, aged 17, Convict; disease or hurt, catarrh, slight headache, thirst and nausea. Taken ill, 17 October 1819. Treatment continues to folio 18. Discharged 20 October 1819.

Folio 16: James Largy, aged 17, Convict; disease or hurt, catarrh, slight headache and thirst. Taken ill, 17 October 1819. Treatment continues to folio 18. Discharged 20 October 1819.

Folio 16: Note that prayers and a sermon from Blair's Sermons were read to all the prisoners, the ship's company and the guards on the poop deck and evening prayers and a sermon to the prisoners below deck.

Folio 17: James Waite, aged 21, Convict; disease or hurt, swollen testicle, injured getting out of his berth. Taken ill, 18 October 1819. Treatment continues to folio 21. Discharged 31 October 1819.

Folio 17: Note that the prisoners and boys were examined for small pox and cow pox and ten found who were uncertain of having either, 18 October 1819.

Folio 17: William Reece, aged 21, Soldier; disease or hurt, chynanche [cynanche] parotidoea. Taken ill, 19 October 1819. Treatment continues to folio 19. Discharged 23 October 1819.

Folio 17: James Richardson, aged 19, Convict; disease or hurt, swollen testicle, injured getting out of his berth. Taken ill, 19 October 1819. Treatment continues to folio 21. Discharged 31 October 1819.